nude figures
Art without garments
Nude figures are artistic representations of the unclothed human body—in painting, sculpture, photography, or drawing.
The term emphasizes the artistic or academic context: The museum's collection includes Renaissance nude figures.
Art students often begin by sketching nude figures to learn anatomy and form.
The phrase distinguishes serious artistic work from mere nakedness or pornography.
- nakedWearing no garments
- in the buffWearing no clothes
- au naturelUnclothed, in French
- bodyPhysical structure, living thing
- human bodyCorporeal self
sculpture · flesh · portrait · bare · skin · anatomy · model · classical · Venus · pose · art class · art school · form · life model · torso · marble · canvas · exposed
- ancient sculpturesGreek statues, Roman statues, marble statues, bronze statues, Venus de Milo
- sculpturestatue, sculpture, sculptor, sculpting, bronze
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- German ArtMax Ernst, Der Blaue Reiter, expressionism, Gothic art, Renaissance art
- Italian sculptureDavid, Moses, Donatello, Michelangelo, Bernini
- Roman sculpturemarble statue, marble busts, portrait bust, bronze statues, bas-relief